Associate Director, Data Management

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, a pioneering biopharma company based in South San Francisco, is seeking a dynamic and experienced Associate Director to join the Commercial Analytics and Operations team, part of Business Operations. The role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to Rigel’s commercial success and to grow with the company as we continue our growth trajectory.

This is a critical role in Commercial Analytics, responsible for managing all aspects of data including data acquisitions, data operations and reporting. This position is integral to support Rigel’s commercial organization and will be responsible for delivering actionable data insights, and innovative solutions to address business challenges. The Associate Director will play a key role in shaping the data infrastructure that empowers Rigel’s CLT, sales, marketing, and market access teams to achieve their goals.

This position requires strong business acumen, analytical skills, critical thinking, leadership and communication skills.

Salary Range (Premium CA/NY): $160,000 - $180,000

• Oversee the end-to-end management of Rigel’s commercial data assets, including internal SP/SD/Hub/Copay data, 3 rd party data including market data, claims data, and other prescriber and non-prescriber data, affiliations etc.
• Lead Data Operations and Management inclusive of data procurement, data integration into data warehouse (DW), data operations, data governance, and data reporting. Develop and maintain data management and reporting platforms to support various business use cases
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive commercial data warehouse to ensure data is accessible to cross functional stakeholders and is aligned with business needs. Responsible for ensuring data integrity and data quality and conducting periodic data control audits
• Oversee data warehouse operations including building, maintaining, and enhancing data pipelines, and delivery of related data feeds to downstream stakeholders.
• Orchestrate, drive and deliver data and technical solutions with internal and external partners. Ensure that data deliverables are accurate, complete, and timely and that they are curated in a compliant manner
• Identify data assets, opportunities and process gaps and implement solutions with a focus to drive operational excellence.
• Partner with Market Access teams (e.g., Trade and Distribution, Patient Services) in managing data contracts for across data partners such as 3PL, Specialty Distributors, and Specialty Pharmacy.
• Manage MDM, data stewardship efforts to ensure data related to HCP, HCO, Payer etc… are accurately mastered. Address data related inquiries from stakeholder groups
• Proactively resolve data issues and communicate status to all users in a timely manner.
• Act as a data architect and trusted thought partner to the commercial analytics team and other cross functional stakeholders offering data and reporting solutions to measure/track key performance metrics.
• Design and implement data models and ensure that data needed for reporting (structured and ad-hoc) and analytics is available in the DW tables and the operational processes are streamlined, accurate, and actionable to drive informed decision-making.
• Maintain an accurate inventory of all data assets and manage the data vendor MSAs, SOWs, TPAs. Develop a Data Catalog, to allow visibility into available data for a broad range of stakeholders.
• Effectively manage Data Aggregator and Data Warehouse vendors, ensuring timely and high-quality data deliverables. Implement processes to monitor vendor performance and address any issues proactively.
• Serve as an IT liaison to coordinate infrastructure, reporting/BI tool and other systems/tool access, licenses for both vendor and internal stakeholders
• Negotiate contracts and manage relationships with data providers as required.
• Mentor/coach junior members of the commercial analytics team as required.
• Stay fluent with evolving data and analytics landscape to ensure Rigel has access to the most relevant and up-to-date data assets.
• Other job duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years or Master’s…